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The Borough of Southall forms part of Area 9, which includes also the Boroughs of
Brentford and Chiswick, and Heston and Isleworth. Two Welfare Visitors and a Homework
Organiser are included in the staff which has been provided by the County Council's
Welfare Department for carrying out social services required, and who visit those suffering
from substantial and permanent handicaps. They work from the Local Area Welfare
Office and the handicapped persons are visited in their own homes with a view to assisting
them to obtain services from statutory or voluntary sources.
The County Council supplies aids and appliances not covered by the National Health
Services and carries out where necessary adaptations to a house to enable a handicapped
person to become more mobile, provides holidays, arranges for the disabled to take part in
social activities, including choral and dancing classes, attend handicraft classes, etc. Special
coaches with a hydraulic hoist to lift wheelchair cases are available for use for social
activities, etc. Advice and guidance regarding personal problems are given and membership
of voluntary organisations catering for particular handicaps is facilitated.
The Home Work Organiser endeavours to procure from industry appropriate assembly
work and arranges for this to be carried out by handicapped persons at a Work Centre
or in their own homes where this is considered to be suitable and of assistance to the individuals
concerned.
At 31st December, 1962, 92 residents of the Borough were registered as generally
handicapped.
Alterations to eight houses to make them more suitable for handicapped persons were
made as follows:—
Flat: House: Rail by toilet and ramp at front door.
House: Bath hand rail.
Flat: Rails by front door and toilet.
Flat: Rail by toilet and ramp at front door.
Flat: House Base for shed for invalid carriage and crossover for kerb.
House: Rail by bath and on stairs.
Under the County provision of Chiropody Service, one physically handicapped person
received one domiciliary chiropody treatment in 1962.
Residents of the Borough needing any of the County Welfare Services briefly referred
to in this Report should apply to the Area Welfare Officer, Mr. J. F. Cronk, at the Local
County Offices, Great West Road, Brentford.
Nutrition of School Children:
The following figures kindly supplied by the Divisional Education Officer give the
details of milk and meals acceptance in the various schools in the Borough.

The percentage of meals served to daily attendances during the Autumn Term gives a
guide to the use being made of the School Meals Service during the year.
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